[IC] [Suspect]Can We Be More Than Friends?[Hidden]

[iSuspect]

Summer Time - The time that all of the high school students and graduates look forward to. Most of the graduates go ahead and start college but the rest take time off to party, go to the beach and does god knows what else. It has to be the favorite time of the year, since you can actually have time to really escape from reality and what not. Today was a very warm and sunny day, not a single cloud was in the sky. Days like this was perfect beach weather, which was probably packed with familiar and unfamiliar faces.

In the midst of being at the beach, a tall figure stood beside a group of guys. He laughed at the few jokes that they were telling but shook his head at their idiotic remarks. He ran his fingers through his spiky brown hair then told the guys that he'll be back in a minute. He took out his cell phone and started to dial Aoi's number but didn't hit call since he got interrupted by a blonde, who was prancing over towards him. "Hey, can you put sunblock on my back?" She asked him sweetly as he looked at her with a smirk then nodded his head. "Sure, why not?" He said then told her to hold on as well while raising up his index finger then hit the call button.

If Aoi was to answer, he would basically tell her that she is missing some awesome beach time and that she should come and join him. After their brief conversation, he looked towards the blonde and smiled. "Okay, now, where were we?" He asked her as she rolled her eyes and walked away. De'von shrugged his shoulders while walking back to his guy friends, who were all shirtless, including him and wearing beach shorts and sandals. He looked around then told the fellas that he was going to get in the water for a bit as a few of them followed.

After spending a few minutes in the water, he grabbed his towel and wiped his faced but shaked his locks of hair dry. He threw the towel upon his shoulders then scanned the beach for Aoi, seeing if she made it or not. He really hope that she could come but if she couldn't, he would understand and go to see her instead.

[HiddenBeauty13]

Aoi, as expected, was cooped up inside her apartment, reading the latest book by one of her favorite authors with a small bag of gummy snacks sitting beside her. Aoi was unlike most females of her age: she preferred to stay inside and read books all day instead of hanging out at overcrowded beaches; and, most of all, she disliked bikinis with a passion. Still, she somehow managed to befriend someone who loved all the things that she disliked, but they got along quite well. Pushing that thought away, the girl picked up another gummy snack and was about to bite into it until she heard her phone ring. After a quick glance at the screen, she signed. It was De'von calling, probably trying to convince her to join him at the beach, even though she'd explained to him several times that she hated crowds, which was a fact that he already knew. If he couldn't convince her to leave her apartment, then nobody could. Still, Aoi felt bad for not at least trying to overcome her hatred of crowds for him, so she let her phone go to voicemail before sending him a text:

Sorry, was busy reading my new book...I'll be there soon..

It was poor excuse, one that he probably wouldn't believe but that didn't stop her from sending it anyway. After pressing send, Aoi popped the gummy into her mouth then put the rest of it in her shoulder bag before heading out of her apartment, not bothering to change her clothes. She wasn't going to a fashion show, after all. The walk to the beach was fairly uneventful for Aoi, especially since the sidewalk was mostly clear of people who were probably all crowding the beach. That seemed to be the case as she turned the corner and saw more people flocking towards the salty ocean waters and its sandy counterpart. Sighing a bit, Aoi watched as people guzzled down drinks and shook and ground their half naked bodies to music beneath the unforgiven sun; she found herself wondering how De'von could stand being here but eventually shrugged it off. That's simply how her friend was.

After looking around or a bit, Aoi eventually found an unoccupied table near the back of the beach and sat down under the umbrella, grateful for the shade it provided. She then took out her sketch book, pencil, and headphones and began sketching away while listening to some alternative music. With her headphones in and her attention on her sketchbook, it would be hard for an average person to notice the presence of another, but Aoi wasn't exactly your average human being...

[iSuspect]

Devon felt his cell phone vibrate in his pocket as he quickly stumbled to see if it was Aoi, which it was. A great smile came over his face as he tried his best to hide it from his friends, who were looking at him with raised brows. He cleared his throat and turned to face them with a slight chuckle. They wasn't going to let him slide with this one. Some friends they are. They stood there, drinks in hand, brows still raised and their faces plastered with the ultimate question 'What the hell was that smile about?' Devon pretended not to see them as he trailed off towards the small hut beside the bar. He pulled out his cell phone and sent Aoi a text back:

It's cool. Can't wait to see you here. :)

Devon then turned his phone off and scanned the beach, seeing a lot of their classmates and people they went to high school with were there. He went and stood over beside a palm tree, kicking his foot up and letting it lay flat against the tree. Some of the girls from their school came over towards him and chatted for a little while. They also mentioned some sort of party at one of their house and also handed him a flyer. "I'll try to make, ladies." They said okay and smiled while waving Devon bye.

His eyes peered towards the flyer to read it over as when he looked up, he saw that Aoi had made her way to the beach. He wondered why she didn't text him but just shrugged his shoulders as he walked towards. She was always in her sketchbook, doing some type of drawing as he crept up behind her and covered her eyes with his hands. He wiggled his thumb over to remove one of the headphones as he leaned down and whispered. "Guess who?" He tried his best to hold in a laugh and not to spoil that it was him.

[HiddenBeauty13]

Aoi hadn't checked her phone since she left home, but she didn't need to. She could feel De'von's presence way before he actually approached her. Whenever he was near, the air around her would tingle; it was the same tingling she felt as a pair of hands covered her eyes. The tingling only seemed to increase as he gracefully removed her headphones and whispered in her ear, causing the girl to shiver involuntarily. Aoi just hoped that De'von hadn't noticed or at least act like it as she would probably be too embarrassed to explain the unexplainable.

A slight smile formed on her lips and she pretended to ponder his question before turning a page in her sketchbook. "Well, it's somebody with a brown hair and grey(?) eyes." She said knowingly as she quickly sketched a face with a mass of wet brown hair in its face. "Andddd I'm pretty sure that this 'somebody' is shirtless." Aoi's pencil moved with precision as she drew what she thought he looked like right now and even managed to add a few water droplets to the male's bare chest...or at least tried to anyway. "And you have on swimming trunks on, don't ya?" The girl asked with another smirk as she began to draw the figure's lower halve with a pair of heart shape covered swimming trunks. She then moved her pencil to the side and wrote 'De'von' in bold letters.

Aoi then turned her heard slightly towards him and smiled. "Is this you?" The girl wasn't exactly sure how her picture came out since she couldn't see the entire time while drawing it but she knew that she at least got the name right. As she waited for an answer, Aoi listened to the sounds of people playing on the beach and the sounds of the waves crashing gently against the sandy shore. In fact, she could imagine it so vividly in her mind she didn't need to look at it in order to draw it. I'll draw that once De'von allows me to see again...